Thursday, 26 February 2015

"One snowy
night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a
production of King Lear. Jeevan
Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A
child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR,
pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same
night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread.
Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves inside an
apartment, watching out the window as cars clog the highways, gunshots ring
out, and life disintegrates around them. Fifteen
years later, Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony. Together, this
small troupe moves between the settlements of an altered world, performing
Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. Written on their
caravan, and tattooed on Kirsten's arm is a line fromStar Trek:
"Because survival is insufficient." But when they arrive in St.
Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for
anyone who dares to leave".

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

After a
long time without doing a Top Ten Tuesday I was actually thinking of not doing them
anymore but this week’s topic is awesome. I mean heroines? Yes, please! I’ve
listed only ten even though I could have listed a whole lot more. They aren’t
in any particular order and we have a mix between book and tv shows heroines.
Let’s do this!

Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Title:Obstacles
{Goodreads}Author: Christopher ReardonPages (format): 256 (e-book)Publication Date: August 29th 2013Publisher: Solstice PublishingBuy it: AmazonSummary: "A child will die.
You’re afraid to live. Would you go to all lengths to save him? Darkness knows
no bounds, as Alcott, an African American doctor sees all too well. The man is
petrified by death. His fragile existence rests at the mercy of the universe. This
fact is far too much for him to handle. From unyielding nightmares to elevator
terrors, he’s lost in paranoia. Assigned to look after an ill child, Alcott’s
horrors only heighten. Gari is a nine-year-old boy with a fatal disease. He
will surely pass on within the year. Alcott bonds with him more and more each
day. Part of him knows this grim fate just isn’t right. Alcott befriends a
hospital patient. This lunatic forces him to lug home an ancient text on
bringing back the dead. Despite the man’s obvious dementia, Alcott attempts the
scheme. Charging up a cliff, he recites the chant over ocean gusts. A god woman
glides in from the horizon. She instructs Alcott on the trials to save Gari’s
life. These fearsome Obstacles require true strength. From battling sharks to
wielding a flail, he must prove fortitude against genuine danger. Alcott
decides his fate at this moment. Death’s claws shall not grasp Gari’s soul".

{First of all, I need to thank the author, Christopher Reardon, for allowing me to read his book in exchange of an honest review}Obstacles follows Alcott, an African American doctor who
is taking care of a little kid called Gari who suffers from terminal cancer. One
day a patient shows Alcott a book about bringing back the dead and so he goes
to a beach and chants one of the spells. A woman materializes and tells him
there is a way to keep Gari alive; he has to overcome some challenges known as
the Obstacles, where he would have to prove himself, in order to keep the boy
alive. But there is, of course, a catch: to
keep the boy alive, Alcott would have to give up his own life. While I
liked the book, I also had some problems with it; character-wise mostly.

Sunday, 15 February 2015

I’M BACK! First
of all, thank you so much for the lovely comments on my previous post; you’re
all so sweet and lovely ^^

So after
three weeks, I’m finally uploading a post and it’s a tag. I know Valentine’s
Day was yesterday but the lovely Jillian over at Jillian’s Books tagged me and I thought
it was the perfect opportunity to get back in the blogging train. Without
further ado, here are my answers: